3.94 GPA thesis emerging ancillary
markets in the global wireless
revolution
hmm but that's quite a read we're
actually looking at beefed up our tech
practice but then you probably already
knew that so Katherine Burke who are you
where do you come from I grew up in the
middle of nowhere
the birthplace of Wendell Willkie is 20
miles away and that's about it my mom
works in a bottling plant and sells
neutral life products and my dad left
when I was little I never really knew
him tell us about a problem you've
encountered my guidance counselor tried
to keep me from applying to good schools
I thought she was my friend she said she
understood me and that I would be
happier staying close to home Junior
College or secretarial school she hated
me what action did you take I invited a
senator who attended college here to
speak at our school and what was the
result I got a strong letter
recommendation from US senator was
accepted early decision and they gave me
lots of financial aid and what did you
learn from this experience truthfully of
course mrs. Castleman was a sneaky
mm-hmm it was the first time I was
betrayed by someone I trusted I looked
up to her I didn't come close to
understanding the depth to which she
resented me I learned that people who
helped me who invest in me become my
partners and my success is their success
that relationships are symbiotic I learn
responsibility based on other's faith in
me I hope to be able to pay some
dividends to those investors how many
pennies do you think it would take to
fill this room with the without us in it